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Comcare claims 'expected'
Sydney :: Australia | 3 months ago
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National Secretary of The Community and Public Sector Union, Nadine Flood. Photo: Rohan Thomson Australia's main public sector union says workplace pressure is leading to more workers' compensation claims from federal public servants citing
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Greece faces fresh strike chaos
Athens :: NY :: USA | 4 months ago
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Greeks to down tools in fresh strike against austerity Striking Greek journalists caused a media blackout on Tuesday Greece is braced for its first general strike of the year as workers renew their protest over austerity measures. The 24-hour strike
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Whole Foods CEO Welcomes Climate Change, Warns of Fascism
San Francisco :: CA :: USA | 5 months ago
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Ethical vegan" John Mackey dishes on Obamacare, labor unions, and government meddling...But soon the long-haired 25-year-old found himself lumped in with the people he was supposed to be fighting...And government regulators were slapping him with
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Charles Krauthammer: The right-to-work dilemma
Detroit :: MI :: USA | 6 months ago
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For all the fury and fistfights outside the Lansing Capitol, what happened in Michigan last week was a simple accommodation to reality. The most famously unionized state, birthplace of the United Auto Workers, royalty of the American working class,
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Really, Public School Teachers in Ontario want to strike. Why?
Ontario :: CA :: USA | 7 months ago
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Fair Pensions For All Responds to the Ontario Teachers Strike Threat Really, Public School Teachers in Ontario want to strike...Most of us are getting sick and tired of self- absorbed teachers telling us that somehow they are hard done by. After all,
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Vaughn Palmer: Book on Dave Barrett's government contains a history lesson in how not to get re-elected
Victoria :: Canada | 7 months ago
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As New Democrats work on the agenda for a possible next term of government, bookstores are carrying a timely and telling history of the party's short, eventful first turn at the helm of this difficult province. The Art of the Impossible, Dave Barrett
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Vaughn Palmer: Liberal delegates kill ‘mean-spirited' motion that would allow teachers to opt out of BCTF
Gaza :: Palestine | 8 months ago
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Liberal convention revolved around a motion targeting the public sector union that has given the party the most trouble, the B.C...The measure was one of a trio aimed at curbing the power of public sector unions. All three were given a high priority
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Public sector unions faulted
Worcester :: MA :: USA | 8 months ago
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More debt, higher interest rates and higher costs are the woes City College of New York professor and conservative think-tank fellow Daniel DiSalvo laid at the door of unionized public employees today in a forum at The Research Bureau. Id say that a
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Steve Gill: Release Time Costs Tennessee Taxpayers a Bundle
Nashville :: TN :: USA | 9 months ago
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Perhaps we should be thankful for their not so gentle reminder that striking public employees can hold the public hostage. In 1979, the Tennessee Legislature wisely banned strikes but the power of the public sector unions [...] by Steve Gill Until
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LEE: American Airlines pilots union sabotage
Los Angeles :: CA :: USA | 9 months ago
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In recent decades, labor union leaders often have sowed the seeds of their own demise by overplaying their hand and overestimating their dominion. Public-sector unions such as teachers and government employees shielded from a competitive marketplace
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